Saikyou no Madoshi. Hisa ni Ya wo Ukete Shimatta no de Inaka no Eihei ni Naru - Vol. 1 Ch. 2 - I Was the Strongest Sorcerer. And Then I Confronted th…

[Meybi]

umu

 

[Zephyrum_Alsend]

@Kaarme Fire arms aren't a guarantee for survival against even normal wild animals. It takes a clean blast to the brain to immediately kill, so even if the shot is fatal the beast still has time to lash out. Their speed can also make them difficult targets and it doesn't look like that shotgun is particularly fast on the reload.

But above all, there's magic. How magic interacts with firearms is different from dimension to dimension, so we can't say how effective or ineffective bullets are until we're told.
e.g. Bullets could deal fixed damage, so they're good for the weak, but as one powers up, their physical resistance and strength grow to surpass that fixed damage.

 

[Kaarme]

@Zephyrum_Alsend Depending on where you are hit, lashing out at someone quite far away is the least of your worries. In fact it could be you are in such a shock that you wouldn't have the wits to have any worries anymore. One crucially important difference about firearms, compared to pretty much all the magic, let alone mundane weapons in fantasy, is the speed. In normal ranges, there's simply no time whatsoever for the target to react. For all intents and purposes, the bullet hits the same moment the shooter pulls the trigger. And it's very accurate.

I'm not sure why the author decided to have guns in this series. I fear it would have been far better without. Japan is such a society that most people there have no connection to firearms whatsoever, so it makes sense most of them wouldn't really realise what sort of things they are. Thus, their depiction is often nonsense, just like it's with military matters in general.

 

[undercurses]

I'm reading too much dosukebe elf ... that when i see the eroifu in this series, what's comes in my mind is banggang tag of the villagers on the eroifu...

 

[razielgreed]

Why da hell that wolf looks like fuckin Dio Brando!?

 

[AfterMidnightMoon]

I thought his knee was busted.

 

[Beregorn]

Olio Cuore!

 

[Pilatypus]

I thought the wolf would go ara ara...

 

[Wilhelm_Stenvall]

The fluff

 

[danime91]

@Kaarme

I mean, did you see that basilisk last chapter? Turns you to stone just by looking at you, and you kinda gotta be able to look at something to shoot at it accurately. On top of that you've got magical wolves that are apparently resistant to high-impact blows or can outright dodge them, and who knows what other kind of fantastical creatures lurking around, like maybe golems or undead or armored lizards or what have you that just can't be affected by mundane firearms. In the end maybe sharpshooter or gunslinger can be an adventurer class, but regular villagers won't be doing much even with guns.

 

[Kaarme]

@danime91 If a gun doesn't work, then no martial arts work either. Fancy magic would work, considering magic is magic and could scale up to nuclear weapon range (like in the Nanoha universe). I was only saying that I'm not a fan of having firearms in a fantasy setting because they rarely would live up to their realistic effects, so it would be better to not have them at all. This is especially true for Japanese works, aside from a few lone exceptions, like Gate.

 

[danime91]

@Kaarme Where'd martial arts even enter into this discussion? All I'm saying is that mundane firearms not backed by magic or special abilities of some kind would be useless against monsters, thus it's not really that big a deal to have them in the fantasy setting, even if it does make things anachronistic as heck. Though since primitive firearms were around in some form or other since the late middle ages, not all that anachronistic.

As for firearms in a "fantasy" setting. What defines fantasy, and what makes firearms inherently not fantasy? Just because Japan has been drowning in the standard medieval European, swords and sorcery, elves, dwarves, and dragons style of fantasy for forever and a half doesn't mean everything has to adhere to that template. While I would raise an eyebrow at seeing what looks like precision-machined rifle-barreled small arms in the possession of mere villagers in the apparent technological period of the setting, firearms themselves aren't that big of an issue. Heck, the discovery of gunpowder would have occurred sooner or later if they've got alchemists brewing up various kinds of potions, or just the concept of launching a projectile with the power of contained, directed force.

And sure, firearms and their effects aren't gonna be portrayed accurately. You know what else isn't portrayed accurately? Swordsmanship, archery, medieval architecture, the list goes on. At the end of the day, the writer/mangaka can't be a subject matter expert on everything, though it would certainly be nice if they at least have passing familiarity with the subjects they portray, and some realism inevitably has to give way to "rule of cool". So I'm content to go with good enough accuracy, or at least feasibility. Not saying you have to as well, since everyone has different tastes and different things that break their suspension of disbelief/tolerance of bullshit. Just saying not to write off certain aspects out-of-hand just because at first glance they seem to clash with the tone/setting.

 

[Tensei21]

@matthewyu123
Thanks femme

 

[OtakuD50]

Okay, what's this wizard with a bum knee doing kicking giant wolves with his literal injured leg?

 

[Kampfarsch]

"I chose to lead a life of otium cum dignitate"
does that mean hes gonna bang the elf
please tell me hes gonna bang the elf

 

[Koremitsu_Arita]

Why did the wolf accept the stupidest name

 

[GraniteNinja]

@Koremitsu_Arita i think it was something in the sense of femme fatale

 

[The5thSeraph]

Yeah, I know that feel.
After being awake for over 36 hours, he'd be as knackered as Kirei Cake's eternally sick mother.

Not to mention jumping over the fence and kicking wolves about with his bad knee.

 

[Neneo2SE]

MC : My knee busted because of cursed arrow!! Ouchieee!!!

Also MC : run fast and jump fast to a pack of wolfs

 

[Viljar]

MC: I were going to visit you're sick sister later.

Remember this guy is not a doctor and have just accepted the town guard position. Her little sister have never met this person before so it's just a weird thing to say.